In June of this year, my dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. On October 19th, he lost that battle. I am still having a hard time completely accepting the fact that he's really gone. I miss him so much... he was the glue that held our family together...

My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer three years ago. I was living in another state and expecting my first child. He had a football size tumor removed that same year. It was a really harsh procedure on my frail and tired dad. He was in stage four when he was first diagnosed. He...

January 2007, my dad set my brother and I down and told us he had cancer. He was strong and positive the entire time, but I couldn't help myself. I lost it. It was not until he grabbed my arm and hugged me that he started crying too. All through his illness he was determined to...

I lost my dad to brain cancer on 4-6-11. I miss him so much. I had to go back to school (I go to college in a different state). It's so hard to try to finish up the semester while feeling so depressed.We all thought that my dad was doing much better. The average amount of time...

I am hoping that writing this will help in some way as at the moment I am finding every day so hard.
On November 28th 2013 mine and my family's world changed forever. My mum had always been in good health but she had smoked since she was 13. During that week she had felt unwell...

I lost my father 20 years ago to one of the deadliest diseases of today. Cancer is spreading like wild fire on a daily basis. It’s also leaving the families in a black hole of hurt and anguish whether the person survives or not.
Once you have gone through it with someone you...

I lost a parent to cancer. Once diagnosed she was in and out of hospitals/hospice for 9 months. I was 20. She was 47. Far too young. They called it non-hodgkins lymphoma of stomach I believe. No tears, no reminiscence. Just wanted to get...

When I was 10 years old my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was the hardest thing I have experienced in my life. When my mother and I walked into the hospital room he looked at my mom and said " Im going under Kathy" I can still hear it. &nbsp...

On June 26, 2013 by dad passed away from throat cancer. I remember getting a phone call at 430am from my mom saying the hospice nurse said my dad has hours to live. At noon that day he passed. I talked to him once because my mom made me I just sat there and watched him breath. I...

I lost my Dad to cancer when I was 5. He was in the Air Force, my mum is British though so when he passed away my mum, bother and me all moved back to England. I am now 19.
The past few months though I have been thinking about my Dad more and more and have been very teary...

I wonder some times what my life would have been like if I had made some different choices. When I married I wanted to stay married for ever & did not want to be married several times. I made a choice for my husband to never have any children and to never go on with my real...

at the age 15 she battled for 3 years and sadly passed away at the age of 57 and I am still struggling to come to terms and need some one who been through the same problem of loosing a mam or a dad I. An talk to

he was a great man he toured the world as a manager for mca records and everything i do with my music is to make him happy but he died april 10 three days after i came to town to see him for my birthday yesterday would have been his birthday i now i cant stop thinking about him...

My mum was 43 when she was first diagnosed with cancer. She had intense chemotherapy for 6 months and it was a very hard period for her and for us watching her suffers so much. She was never one of those people who complained about life, if she did, it was because she wanted to...

8 years ago...daddy got sick.
I wanted to go fishing, he had to go see the doctor
I wanted to play dress up && dance around, mommy said he need to sleep
9 years ago...daddy went to a big city
I wanted to go back home & go fishing, he was covered in...

So I just read the first story I ever put on ep 2 years ago and I thought it was time to update on what has happened since then.. Wow.. Where do I start? I remember that day like it was yesterday still. It will probably "haunt" me for the rest of my life. So much has changed...

My Mom was diagnosed with lung cancer in June of 08. She fought hard but in the end she still lost the battle. My mom was my best friend and I just dont know how Im going to go on without her. She worked all the way up to the end and she never, ever complained. My mom was 47 when...

My mother lost her mom at a young age to breast cancer she would tell me how sad she was and how much she missed her I never understood the pain of loss. My mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer five years ago I never thought it would take her away from me she was strong...

I didnt know my mom was sick for the longest time. the way i found out was bc my sis was listening in on a conversation my mom was having with my grandmother. when she came in to tell me i thought she was lying. but as she got more sick i started to realize it was the truth. she...

I was seven when they found the cancer she was 37. at first they thought it was pne. but she never got better so they did a chest e-ray and found out it was lung cancer.. stage 4. sadly the cancer had spread to her brain and posibly other parts of her...

I lost my mom, best friend, and the greatest woman I will ever know on September 17, 2011. I have felt a void and part of me feels like it died that night as well. I would give anything to have my mother back. I have felt alone and empty all these years still. I still cry and...

I grew up thinking that I wasn't good enough or worthy of a good family or true friends. I was alone, lonely, and self hatred had gotten to me. I need to be nurtured, cared for and listen too. I just never wanted to be accepting of that when I was young and in to my later teen...

i'm 23 years old and from florida. I have a mother with stage four breast cancer, and i thought that was was very hard to deal with, than 7 months ago my father who was very healthy and had no medical issues died tragically. I was completely shocked and cant even describe...

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - Tijuana, Mexico
When I walked down the hall, first there was Colleen; smiling, beautiful, the picture of health. Then my eyes fell upon him, my dad, seeming to have aged twenty years in the two years and four months since I...

Nine years have gone by since I have seen your face,. Nine years since I have touched you, hugged you, laughed with you and drove in a car with you. I miss you like crazy and each day does not get any easier. October 14, 2003 was the worst day of my life. My mother and my best...

I can still remeber the day we moved from my beloved home of palm trees and white sandy beaches to this grey, rainy, hell.
The reason my father had cancer. I don't quite know what kind. I am to afraid to ask.
He lay so peacefully in the white hospital bead. I can still remeber...

stage 4 melanoma. she was diagnosed late 2012 and was put on this trial drug. she seemed fine had to eat by a certain time and medication at a certain time other than that she seemed fine things took a turn for the worse around August 2014 when she came out in a rash these spots...

March 2, 2011, I lost the most amazing woman I have ever had to the pleasure to have in my life. My fiances mother, who took me in as her own daughter and was there for me when I needed someone the most. She was a mother to me. She was diagnosed with cancer January 2011. She had...

My dad was born with neurofibromatosis. It has affected many of my family, in fact I have lost 3 family members to it. My dad is one of them. In January of 2003 he was diagnosed with cancer. He was only 37 years old. I was only 13 in fact, he was in the hospital on my birthday...

I lost my Dad to lung cancer last August only a few weeks befoer his 73 rd birthday. Yes he smoked his whole life, but anyone can get lung cancer. My Mother also has stage 4 lung cancer and she just turned 69 and she still smokes. She was diagonisted one month before my Dad. She...

In June of 2011, my mom and dad sandwiched their 40th anniversary with cancer diagnoses. My mom was diagnosed with Renal Cell Carcinoma (kidney cancer) early June and my dad followed her up with a diagnosis of Colon Cancer. Mom went ahead and had the bad kidney removed and dad...

My mother had breast cancer 11 years ago, went for chemo, mastectomy etc. She was in remission and 3 years ago it was back again. She fought back, went for chemo again, lost all her hair and was very ill, took a brake and went back for chemo. For every test she had to go you hold...

i lost a parent to cancer january 3,2008 it was my mother my sweet loving mother she was 53 yrs. old . she was sick the doctor told her that it was her gallbladder. she got sicker and sicker we finally called the ambulance. they did a serices of tests. they still couldn't figer...

I lost my mom to uterine cancer on August 12, 2009. She was 61 years young. She had been a 16 year breast cancer survivor. My mom was my best friend. We lived in the same neighborhood and were business partners. We had worked side by side for 20 years. Losing her has been the...

I lost my mother to stage 4breast cancer. She was diagnosed when I was 17years old and died when I was 20. I watched the cancer tear her apart for 3 years before it took her life. She was more than my mother, she was my best friend she did everything for us and I hope that I will...

I have nothing to say good about cancer.
My real mom who is currently in rehab was in prison while she was pregnant with me... so I was adopted. By an amazing ladie to whom I called mom. She never dated or thought she would have kids. Having me was a dream come true, so I was...

August -diagnosis day, , 2011 the end, the ten months which ensued were painful on so many levels. I cant even describe the feelings, It just hurt, the cancer vicariously, watching my lively active father go from an active tennis player to a vegetable who did not know me. I...

i lost my mother to cancer when i was 14 she was 35 she found out in april of 2003 that she she had a gastric cancer and she died november 2003 i just feel so alone like i have no one to undrstand what im going thru i know it been almost nine years but the pain just doesnt go...

iv had a great childhood, loving parents, toys i could build a castle with, parties on any special days, trips to the cinema or the water park but that seemed like a life time ago.....
things changed fast it hit me soo hard i dont know how i kept standing dad just got sick thats...

I lost my dad about 1 month ago to cancer. lung cancer. he didnt smoke. im sick of the stigma of this cancer. i spent too much time "educating " ignorant people. . i have realized in this time of misfortune.... who is there for me and who is not. the not list is...

I lost my mom to ovarian cancer in 2000. She had battled it since I was 8 years old, and had gone into remission when I was 10, but then it came back. She had 2 surgeries to try to save her but in the end, the cancer overtook her and she died when I was 11.